1.   But Michael Foot was a formidable orator and on occasions he could coin a phrase which captured the mood perfectly.

2.   He was going to have fun if it killed him, to coin a phrase.

3.   It is an odd sidelight, to coin a phrase, on road accidents.

4.   Miller was trying to help his career and, to coin a phrase, snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

5.   Fifty local musicians have, to coin a phrase, banded together to form the Jazz Umbrella.

6.   To coin a phrase by John, I live in a very small house said Confucius, but my windows look out on a very large world.

7.   The Roman poet and letter-writer Sidonius Apollinaris coined the phrase Lugdunensis Germania to describe it.

8.   A bias, if I may coin a phrase, against the obvious.

9.   Bernard Levin coined the phrase Pendulum Years to describe the swinging Sixties, while the Seventies were hangover years as the hopes of the previous decade proved illusory.

10.   As for the object of all this libidinous kerfuffle, well, to coin a phrase, Irons seemed to have no idea.